Re: Serious question: Are you brain damaged?

Post #286,451 by andread 6/7/07 4:51:34 PM Reply	Re: Serious question: Are you brain damaged? No at the risk of quibbling with the dictionary, I've always had a slightly different understanding of the term at a 3 card monte game, the 'winner' with the handful of cash who is a partner of the dealer is a shill from Wikipedia: A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. The intention of the shill is, using crowd psychology, to encourage others unaware of the set-up to purchase said goods or services or support the political group's ideological claims. Shills are often employed by confidence artists and governments. Certainly, I think that is what Chuckles means when he calls me a shill A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://westcottradio.org\|Tune In]
Post #286,456 by crazy 6/7/07 5:47:43 PM Reply	Ah, the wonders of Wikipedia where if you don't like it, you get to change it. And the wonders of focused limited definitions. You/he promote the environment, purposefully ignoring flaws, because it benefits you. You are both shills. He is a directly paid one, you are indirectly since it benefits your career in general.The more people that adopt it, the more money he makes and the more likelyhood your skillset will keep you employed. And the comment concerning brain damage was a kind one, because otherwise, you'd be displaying the ultimate skill of a shill, the ability to ignore the incredibly obvious. Purposeful stupidity is such an endearing trait, wouldn't you say?
Post #286,464 by bepatient 6/7/07 7:14:26 PM Reply	I had always understood the term by his definition. Employees aren't shills UNLESS they are on the net pretending NOT to be employees. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #286,467 by jake123 6/7/07 7:21:26 PM Reply	Indeed; if they self-identify properly, they're salespeople.
Post #286,488 by crazy 6/7/07 10:18:53 PM Reply	I disagree (new thread) Created as new thread #286487 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=286487\|I disagree]
Post #286,524 by mmoffitt 6/8/07 10:34:53 AM Reply	I'm ambivalent. However, in Mega$loth's case ... they actually have a titled position of "Evangelist". I'd be pressed not to call an evangelist a shill. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

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